COMPULSORY RETIREMENT
(Notes)
1[44. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this Article, every employee shall retire from service on the afternoon of the last day of the month in which he attains the age of sixty years.
(b) An employee may be granted extension of service after he attains the age of fifty-eight years with the sanction of the appropriate authority if such extension is in the interests of the Port Trust and the grounds therefor are recorded in writing :
Provided that no extension under this clause shall be granted beyond the age of sixty years, except in very special circumstances.
(c) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Article, the appropriate authority shall, if it is of the opinion that it is in the interest of the Port Trust so to do, have the absolute right to retire any employee by giving him notice of not less than three months in writing or three months’ pay and allowances in lieu of such notice –
(i) if he holds a class I or class II post, after he has attained the age of fifty years;
(ii) in any other case, after he has attained the age of fifty-five years.
(d) Any employee may, by giving notice of not less than three months in writing to the appropriate authority, retire from service, after he has attained the age of fifty years, if he holds a class I or class II post and in all other cases, after he has attained the age of fifty-five years.
Provided that it shall be open to the appropriate authority to withhold permission to an employee under suspension or against whom any disciplinary or vigilance proceedings are pending or contemplated, who seeks to retire under this clause.
(e) An employee who has given notice under clause (d) or to whom notice has been given under clause (c) may be granted, from the date on which the notice expires, leave due and admissible to him, which may extend beyond the date on which he retires or is retired from service, but not extending-
(i) if his date of birth is the first of a month, and –
(1) he had entered Port Trust service before the 1st July 1952, beyond the date on which he attains the age of fifty-eight years and six months;(2) he has entered Port Trust service on or after the 1st July 1952, beyond the date on which he attains the age of fifty-eight years;
(ii) If his date of birth is not the first of a month, and –
(1) he had entered Port Trust service before the 1st July 1952, beyond the last day of the month in which he attains the age of fifty-eight years and six months;
(2) he has entered Port Trust service on or after the 1st July 1952, beyond the last day of the month in which he attains the age of fifty-eight years;
Provided that an employee who is retired by the appropriate authority by giving him pay and allowances in lieu of notice may apply for leave within the period for which such pay and allowances were given, and where he is granted leave, the leave salary shall be allowed only for the period of leave excluding that period for which pay and allowances in lieu of notice have been allowed.